Colloquia & Guest Speakers
Routes for Integrated Photonics and Meta-Optics in Quantum Technologies and Precision Experiments
Stefanie Kroker, Full Professor, TU Braunschweig
Monday, March 31, 2025
3:30 p.m.
Presented in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Abstract
Integrated photonics and meta-optics are key enablers of compact and efficient systems for light routing and conditioning, offering increasingly sophisticated optical functionalities. They also hold the potential to enhance the precision of high-precision optical metrology experiments to unprecedented levels, such as optical atomic clocks and gravitational wave detectors—among the most precise experiments ever developed by humankind. This contribution explores the development and potential of nanophotonic devices for applications in precision optical experiments and atom chips, with a focus on the underlying physical phenomena of light-matter interactions and the critical influence of material properties on performance and precision.
Biography
Stefanie Kroker studied Physics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena/Germany and Universidad de Granada/Spain. She did her PhD with the Institute of applied Physics at Friedrich Schiller University in 2014 and became assistant professor at TU Braunschweig and the German national metrology institute, PTB in 2016. In 2020 Stefanie Kroker received the Science Award Lower Saxony and in 2021 she was appointed to a full professorship at TU Braunschweig. She is a member of the German clusters of excellence QuantumFrontiers and PhoenixD. In 2024 she was awarded with a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.